488 ABA Journal Minnesota articles.
Updated: The tough job market is extending to Minnesota, where job ads in the state bar publication Bench & Bar are down 50 percent.
Eric Caugh, the hiring partner at…
Mar 2, 2009 1:37 PM CST
As laid-off lawyers look for work, they are competing not only against each other but a fresh crop of would-be legal eagles about to graduate from law school within the…
Feb 27, 2009 6:50 PM CST
An alleged $3.5 billion Ponzi scheme that a Minnesota businessman is accused of operating for a decade is keeping a number of Twin Cities law firms busy.
The latest legal…
Feb 24, 2009 6:54 PM CST
U.S. District Judge Richard Kyle says he didn’t have any idea that his son’s law firm had performed work, in unrelated matters, for a defendant in a massive case he…
Feb 13, 2009 6:04 PM CST
The legal battle over an election recount waged by former Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken has cost him $660,000 in legal fees, six times the amount spent by his…
Feb 11, 2009 2:02 PM CST
Despite the struggling economy, lawyers are opening new firms—some voluntarily, and others as an alternative to unemployment.
In both cases, many of the fledgling law partnerships are doing well, reports…
Feb 9, 2009 9:41 PM CST
The Georgia peanut plant linked to an outbreak of salmonella sold its products despite a dozen internal tests over the last two years that indicated contamination with the disease, according…
Jan 28, 2009 12:09 PM CST
A Minnesota attorney’s courthouse behavior yesterday in the midst of a client’s trial in a terroristic threats case reportedly led to an immediate investigation and the lawyer’s arrest on felony…
Jan 17, 2009 2:20 AM CST
Former Sen. Larry Craig is dropping an appeal that sought to withdraw his guilty plea in connection with an airport restroom sex sting.
Craig’s Minneapolis lawyer, Thomas Kelly, said the…
Jan 9, 2009 12:33 PM CST
Lawyers at the Minneapolis firm Parsinen Kaplan Rosberg and Gotlieb have found a unique gift for clients, a “Little Black Book” of favorites, everything…
Dec 24, 2008 5:32 PM CST
The world’s biggest retailer has agreed to settle for $54.3 million a wage-and-hour suit brought in Minnesota on behalf of 100,000 or so workers there who say they were required…
Dec 9, 2008 9:34 PM CST
Sen. Larry Craig won’t be allowed to withdraw his guilty plea in a restroom sex sting.
The Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled today that a trial court did not abuse…
Dec 9, 2008 5:49 PM CST
A disbarred New York lawyer and TV commentator who lost her gambling addiction lawsuit has been arraigned on charges that she looted the escrow accounts of several clients, failing to…
Nov 14, 2008 12:36 PM CST
A law school known for its focus on real-world legal education has launched a new research center that will explore what lawyers do and why clients hire them.
Says political…
Nov 4, 2008 10:16 PM CST
A federal judge in Minneapolis has granted a new trial for a woman ordered to pay $222,000 in damages for illegally sharing 24 copyrighted songs on Kazaa.
U.S. District Judge…
Sep 25, 2008 2:47 PM CDT
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